file acess slow after deletion of many files

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Published on 2012-09-14T21:39:23Z Indexed on 2012/09/14 21:48 UTC
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I recently accidentally created millions of files in one folder (rougly 5 million) and due to limitations I couldn't process them correctly (maximum argument count exceeded for wc / ls and such stuff). So I deleted them, which took quite a while, but now they're gone. I deleted the files with a regular rm. It weren't any system files.

So the files are definitively deleted, but the system is very slow on file stuff now. ls, cat and auto-complete by pressing tab freezes the terminal for several seconds.

Is this some sort of fragmentation issue? Is it an issue with the files beeing still somehow present?

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